Recent accounts of Afghanistan's war driven economy point to an alarming reality. Control over mineral resources has become a ...

Conditions have changed greatly since the height of Pakistan's influence as an interventionist actor in Afghanistan.

American power succeeds only when it enters a conflict with limits, legitimacy, and a political end state already within ...

Even as veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan acknowledge the skill required to pull off the operation, the question ...

The failed U.S. bid to rebuild Afghanistan over two decades cost $148 billion and nearly 2,500 American lives, according to the final report from the agency tasked with oversight of the gargantuan ...

The United States' 20-year attempt to stand up democracy in Afghanistan descended into a cesspool of corruption and squandered as much as $29.2 billion in waste, fraud and abuse in pursuit of ...

The first is that messy war in which, just in the past week, more than 40 high school students were blown to pieces in their classroom, hundreds of bodies were left abandoned for a week in the streets ...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — After five days of on-and-off talks in Istanbul to resolve hostilities that flared in the first half of October, Pakistan and Afghanistan agreed to continue a ceasefire they ...

Australia is grappling with trying to investigate veterans accused of misconduct during the long war in Afghanistan, while the price tag for litigation keeps rising. The Australian government has ...